Ever since 1994, Color Quality Club (ICQC) is organized by the World Printers Forum (WPF) , the print community within WAN-IFRA, its the only worldwide Biennial quality competition for newspapers and magazines with a goal to improve the quality of reproduction, while also increasing competitiveness as well as motivating all personnel. It rewards the winners who adopt and print as per the international ISO standards for printing industry.
The contest evaluation based on objective technical measurements made on a print test element (WAN-IFRA “Cuboid” test patch) and a visual Print Quality defect (GPQ) evaluation by a jury of international newspaper experts. Winner (Publications) of color quality club of a print site will gain one star for their successful color quality membership, these stars accumulated over the years helps the winners to get in to Elite star Club and Millennium Club who reaches 5+ stars and 10+ stars respectively in their life time .
ICQC 2022-2024:
Registration opens from 15th Feb 2022 and
Registration closed by 15th May 2022.
To know all the details about the contest (Dates, Fee, procedures and Registration, etc.,) Visit
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- CONTEST FEE: To get the fee and special pricing for Participants.
- DOWNLOAD AREA: To download contest Instructions, Logo & Winnerbooks.
- HALL OF FAME, STAR CLUB and MILLENNIUM CLUB : All the starclub members, millennium club members in lifetime.
Winners of International Color Quality Club 2022–2024
| NO | COMPANY | PUBLICATION | CITY | COUNTRY |
| 1 | ABP Pvt. Ltd. | Anandabazar Patrika | Kolkata | India |
| 2 | ABP Pvt. Ltd. | The Telegraph | Kolkata | India |
| 3 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Ahmedabad | India |
| 4 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Baroda | India |
| 5 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Bengaluru | India |
| 6 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Chennai | India |
| 7 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Ghaziabad | India |
| 8 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Haryana | India |
| 9 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Hyderabad | India |
| 10 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Kolkata | India |
| 11 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Lucknow | India |
| 12 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Mumbai | India |
| 13 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Nagpur | India |
| 14 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Navi Mumbai | India |
| 15 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Pune | India |
| 16 | Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. | The Times of India | Trivandrum | India |
| 17 | British Industries Printing & Packaging Co. KG. | Alrai | Kuwait | Kuwait |
| 18 | British Industries Printing & Packaging Co. KG. | Aljarida | Kuwait | Kuwait |
| 19 | DELO d.o.o. | Delo | Ljubljana | Slovenia |
| 20 | Druck Styria GmbH & Co. KG. | Kleine Zeitung Styria | Graz | Austria |
| 21 | Druck Styria GmbH & Co. KG. | Kleine Zeitung Carinthia | Graz | Austria |
| 22 | Druckerei Konstanz | Suedkurier | Konstanz | Germany |
| 23 | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Potsdam | Germany |
| 24 | Heilbronner Stimme GmbH & Co. KG. | Heilbronner Stimme | Heilbronn | Germany |
| 25 | Jagran Prakashan Limited | Dainik Jagran | Kanpur | India |
| 26 | Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH | Augsburger Allgemeine | Augsburg | Germany |
| 27 | Printing Partners Paal-Beringen | Het Nieuwsblad | Paal-Beringen | Belgium |
| 28 | Sakal Media Pvt. Ltd. | Sakal | Kolhapur | India |
| 29 | Sakal Media Pvt. Ltd. | Sakal | Pune | India |
| 30 | The Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. | The Mathrubhumi Daily | Calicut | India |
| 31 | The Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. | The Mathrubhumi Daily | Kannur | India |
| 32 | The Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. | The Mathrubhumi Daily | Kochi | India |
| 33 | The Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. | The Mathrubhumi Daily | Palakkad | India |
| 34 | The Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. | The Mathrubhumi Daily | Trichur | India |
| 35 | The Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. | The Mathrubhumi Daily | Trivandrum | India |
| 36 | THG Publishing Pvt. Ltd. | The Hindu | Bengaluru | India |
| 37 | THG Publishing Pvt. Ltd. | The Hindu | Coimbatore | India |
| 38 | THG Publishing Pvt. Ltd. | The Hindu | Hyderabad | India |
| 39 | THG Publishing Pvt. Ltd. | The Hindu | Trivandrum | India |
| 40 | Turkuvaz Haberlesme ve Yayincilik A.S | Sabah | Istanbul | Turkey |
Contact and Inquiries
if you wish to secure a place as a sponsor, please Contact Us
if you have concerns on the contest process and procedures, please contact , Prabhu Natrajan, Tel. +91 8792178292, prabhu.n@wan-ifra.org
ICQC TRAINING
The IFRA Research and Material Testing Centre have initiated to train and offer onsite or online training programs to IFRA members and color quality participants. The main aim of the training programs is to provide the publishing house about know-hows? of the contest, all the technical knowledge required for the contest.
Moreover, the participants from press and pre-press, project leads for ICQC could attend the training program. This could potentially be extended to the core team that excute the quality contest in the shop floor. Understanding the technical backround will enhace the approach of the people and sort the errors and difference in a simpliefed way…KNOW MORE
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